I changed my original attempt at making this, because one chicken carcass didn’t seem to wield enough flavor-mostly because I don’t like adding a litany of seasonings!. Also, my original attempt used regular noodles, so don’t despair, if you want a hearty DELICIOUS recipe, that is not Whole30…it would be delicious with any kind of noodles! And would be even more so with the two carcass addition!

Admittedly, I didn’t soak mine for days… as it probably should have if you are only using one carcas.

I’m more of an overnight for the next meal kinda person. SO…if you’re with me on that, and want even MORE left overs…

TWO CHICKENS!

Otherwise…one chicken carcass for longer 15-18 hours is what I read.

SO…I’m now converted to buying two chickens! We eat one meal from the actual chicken, and then I take all the meat off both for later use (more recipes on that to come!) but most of one chicken goes back into the soup.

Ingredients (feeds 4 with leftovers)

Two Rotisserie Chickens (Use both carcasses for the bone broth but the shredded chicken from both can be used for multiple meals!)

Place the carcass in the slowcooker with the carrots, onions, garlic, and ginger.

Pour 10-12 Cups of Water depending on your crockpot. I filled mine until 1″ of the top (Ok, I filled it to closer to the top my next time, and…it didn’t go well for the cleaning up aspect…fyi :)) . SO…keep it within an inch of the top 🙂

Cook on low overnight for 12-18 hours. Honestly…longer the better.

The next morning, pull on the bones out unless you bought these bags!!. I left the carrots and onions in there, and for me…it’s a must for flavor! They were mushy, but I figured the flavor would still be good and it SO was!

Meanwhile…spiralize your sweet potato. You have plenty of time, so no rush on doing it 🙂

When the bones are all out (pick them out or lift them out in a bag!), place the spiralized sweet potatos back in and cook on high for another hour.

Add shredded chicken back in and let sit on warm until dinner!Great for those sick days….or NOT, because….YUM!!

By now, I’m sure you all have heard about all the amazing health benefits of bone broth. If by chance you haven’t, you can read about some of the benefits here.

Often, I’ll make a soup from the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving, by boiling it on the stovetop but other than that…I’ve been totally lazy thinking it was too much of a process to do regularly.

Until recently, when a friend told me she does it in her crockpot over night-DUH!!

Every week we have a rotisserie chicken for dinner. For whatever reason, the chicken gets dried out and nobody eats it after a day. So, every week I end up throwing away the leftovers after a few days and get SO frustrated over the wasting off all that chicken! NO MORE!

This last week, I took off all the extra chicken we didn’t eat that same night and put the carcass in our slow cooker. The next day, I added back in the chicken

Ingredients (feeds 4 with leftovers)

One Rotisserie Chicken (Mine was half eaten from the night before-haha!)

I’m sure most of the world is feeling the warmth of spring and summer, but…in Seattle, we are NOT-UGH!! But…while I’m sick of wearing layers upon layers, I never get tired of yummy soups! Especially easy ones that are practically cooked without me!

This is a recipe that I’ve now done twice because after the first attempt was so well received, I obviously did it again!! And it was all a fluke of things I just happened to have in my cupboard and fridge-WHOOP!

Ingredients (feeds 4 with leftovers)

4-5 frozen chicken breasts (I’m ALWAYS on the fly. If yours aren’t frozen, the timing should still work. It might just mean the meat will be more tender)

1 Can Full Fat Coconut Cream (check labels if you are on Whole30, I used Trader Joe’s)

If you aren’t on a dietary restriction you could add 1/2 a box of Pasta (again, I go light on this end and used veggie pasta. You could use gluten free OR 2 cups zoodles or sweet potato noodles etc if you are Whole30!)

Directions

Place everything in the crockpot, and you’re DONE!!!I I always wonder if things look the way they should when I’m throwing things together, so…yes, it should look like this 🙂And then….after you take the chicken out and fork shred it (it will be SO tender!!)

THIS!

Unless, you want to add a noodle variation. When you are about 10-15 minutes out, you can add the pasta or zoodles etc and they will cook to being tender. I think they’d be mushy if you added them in at the beginning, but let me know if you try! I even added them after the cook time when it was in “warm” mode, and it worked!

Honestly, I was on a crock pot roll lately. Too much to do, no time to cook, yet I wanted yummy healthy food. I didn’t have a recipe for either of these meals and both were DELICIOUS! I’m saying this because a lot of times I see recipes that I like, but I don’t have the time or the ingredients. THAT is the best part of the slow cooker. I have taken tried and true recipes that involved multiple pots and hours of time of me in front of the stove, and rolled the dice throwing everything into the slow cooker in the morning. Guess what? They’ve all turned out fine! Are they as amazing as the original? Sometimes maybe not QUITE as much, but honestly…